May 2013
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Catch a Body
rollingsreliable:
Salinger, I’m sorry, but “Don’t ever tell anybody anything” is a string of words I would like to wrap up in canvas and sink to the bottom of the Hudson, or extract by laser from the ribcage of all of us who ever believed it, who felt afraid to miss someone, to be the last one standing. “Tell everyone everything” is not exactly right, but I do believe that if your mother looks...
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For a few weeks when I was like eight I was absolutely obsessed with James and the Giant Peach, and the Centipede was my favorite so I convinced my grandma to help me go centipede-hunting in her garden.
We didn’t find any, which at the time was disappointing but in retrospect was probably good because real-life centipedes and millipedes are FREAKING TERRIFYING.
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I need to find a polite way to say “I swear I really like you, and it’s nothing personal, but right now I am incredibly annoyed by every single thing you do or say so it’s probably best that we not interact for the next twenty-four hours at minimum.”
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therebloggingneverends:
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tumblr does for social justice what peta does for animal rights
this is seriously the best analogy ever
Okay, can I say something from experience here?
When I first joined tumblr I literally knew NOTHING about racism, or cissexism, or transmisgyonny even. I’m a white kid who grew up in a mostly all white town and believed that while racism...
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Transgender Rights in the Era of Same-Sex... →
The United States moves inexorably toward granting equality to the L.G.B., but in the process, while still pronouncing that satisfying final consonant, we often, in practice, drop the T. No federal law offers protection to transgender people from discrimination in the workplace; the population sees double the usual rate of unemployment, and ninety per cent of transgender individuals report...
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3-2-1queer:
When I was in fifth grade I realized I liked girls but I was like “that’s a problem for another day” and literally forgot about it and then in like eleventh grade I was like “oh my god”
YOU PROCRASTINATED REALIZING YOUR SEXUALITY THAT’S IT YOU WIN YOU ARE THE QUEEN OF THE PROCRASTINATORS i bow to you
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cordeliaistheone:
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if you’ll excuse me i just need to be emotional about harry potter for a second
because he’s not exceptionally powerful or anything you know? like he’s a super average student, smart enough to get by, but he doesn’t really blow anything out of the water (besides defense against the dark arts but really he’s been doing that shit since he was 11 so)
his...
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joichang:
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unfollower:
I like how sweden just decided one day that gender is fucking bullshit so they got a gender neutral pronoun and stopped separating boy clothes and girl clothes and have pictures of spiderman pushing a baby stroller in a toy magazine why isn’t every country like sweden
you push that stroller sassy spiderman!
you fight those bad guys girlfriend!
you...
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Surely this has occurred to everyone else already but
instead of making Harry Potter into a bunch of movies…why didn’t we just adapt it into a TV series?
There would be seven seasons, starting with one of those half-seasons for Season 1 and then going to a full season once it catches on.
There would be the annual Halloween episode and the Christmas specials and that memorable Yule...
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“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is...”
– “Why fiction is good for you” in The Boston Globe (via aaknopf)
see also: why it’s never just a book/tv show/movie
representation matters
(via dearjimmoriarty)
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Watching Hunger Games with my little sister. We are now wearing matching Katniss braids. We are adorable.
(We’re also holding hands during the sad parts and earlier were making references to her as my “little duck.”)
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“Why is diversity in fiction important? Because diversity in life is important....”
– Sarah Ockler talks to white authors about what doesn’t count as diversifying fiction, why certain fears hold some people back, and responsibility (via booksandpublishing)
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April 2013
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before tumblr i was spending the same amount of time on the computer but i seriously cannot recall what i was doing
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jaredpotterloki:
when i say i like harry potter i don’t mean yeah hp is pretty cool i mean i have literally grown up with it surrounding my life i have been reading and rereading the books for as long as i can remember and i can quote the movies word for word and my hogwarts house is a massive part of my identity and it actually physically pains me that i never got my...
“Racism is not in your intent. Your intent is immaterial in how racist your...”
– Moniquill (on red face & cultural appropriation)
This. On a related note, Katie and I were talking a while back about how we think the noun form of “racist” should be used very rarely, because it allows people to dismiss it as the guy putting a Confederate flag in his front lawn...
I’ve been noticing all these mysterious brown specks ground into my comforter and I just discovered they’re crumbs from me eating chocolate on my bed all the time.
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“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers (via shakesphereanrag)
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Melinda: I'm outraged to know you.
Melinda: Just kidding. I'm inraged to know you.
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